Payroll Configuration - General tab - Page 1 sub-tab

Payroll End of Year Date

This is set to the current payroll year that you want to work in. It can be automatically updated upon creating a new payroll year.
You do not need to change it if you only want to view prior payroll year master files, just change the year on the selection screen.

General Ledger links

You need to define the following accounts:

• Group Tax Clearing G/L. This is where tax deducted is credited to for remittance to the taxation department.
• Super Contribution Tax Clearing G/L. This is where super contributions are credited.
• Payroll Clearing G/L. Miscellaneous clearing.
• EFT Clearing G/L. This is where the value of the nett pay is credited. This is normally the bank account but can be any account if you want to do a manual general ledger journal.

Monthly Earning Required for Super

Monthly Superannuation Calculation uses this amount as a default that can be changed when running the program if required.

Select the date used for the monthly superannuation calculation. See Calculating superannuation.

You can select:

• Pay Date
• Period End Date
• Payment Available Date.

Note: These dates are entered when you create new pays using the Create New Pay window. See Creating new pays.

Bank Account

ATO Lodgement Reference

Reference number for the payroll lodgement to the government agency.

Leave Prompt When Entering Pays

Select the date used to calculate employee leave entitlements. See Calculating leave entitlements.

You can select:

• Pay Date
• Period End Date
• Payment Available Date.

Note: These dates are entered when you create new pays using the Create New Pay window. See Creating new pays.

Number of pays used to calculate hours worked leave entitlements on the Leave tab of Payroll Maintenance. See Payroll Maintenance - Leave tab. 

This is used to project leave entitlements for employees with irregular pay (i.e. the Units and Amount fields are blank on the Pay Details tab).

Whether your organisation is exempt from fringe benefits tax under section 57A of the Fringe Benefits Tax Assessment Act (1986). See Fringe Benefits Tax Assessment Act (1986).

You can select:

• Yes
• No
• Unknown.

Default job position used to approve leave applications.

Note: Synergetic recommends selecting the job position that processes staff pay at your organisation.

The selected job position is used to approve leave when Synergetic is unable to establish an approver using the job position reporting hierarchy defined using the Reports to Job Position field on the General tab of Job Position Maintenance. See Job Position Maintenance - General tab.

For more information about understanding leave approvals, see /wiki/spaces/SYNMAIN/pages/2294745836.

Job position used to approve confidential (e.g. domestic violence) leave applications.

Staff members with the selected job position can view Action Centre notifications for confidential leave applications and process the applications on the Staff Leave tab of the Staff Kiosk. See Processing leave application requests.

Note: You can define confidential leave types using the ConfidentialFlag on the luPayrollLeave lookup table. See luPayrollLeave lookup table.

The version of Single Touch Payroll (STP) enabled:

• STP Version 1
• STP Version 2.

Note: You must finalise all STP 1 submissions before switching to STP 2.

Note: When you switch to a prior version of Single Touch Payroll you must confirm your decision because this action can cause payroll data to be submitted in a deprecated format.